:: meanders ::

:: The Moscow Metro
bee flowers presentation of the Moscow Metro stations simply took my breath away. I've long loved metropolitan underground subways, with of course NYC and London figuring heavily, and the Los Angeles Metro leaving me totally puzzled as to it's "why". But the depth of my education was exposed for its shallowness by the stunning panoramas in this collection, Electrozavodskaya sampled below. Surprisingly, the halls are nearly empty of people, displaying to wonderful effect the vaults, lighting, and mosaics, the detailed closeups being included in a gallery. Makes me want to hop on a plane and take a look for myself. 5 Stars for this site! image from beeflowers.com

:: A collection of the wierd, funny, and odd
-{ Hanttula.com }- -{ Hantanuula Presents: The Museum of Food Anomalies }- too horrific for a blurb Go Fug Yourself, celebrity style that...well, the title gives a clue Kudzu Covered Houses in North Georgia, some shown in their four-season glory

:: The Real Date of the Apocalypse
From John Walker, creator of AutoCAD and now with Fourmi Labs, the Calendar Converter

The Mayans believed at at the conclusion of each pictun cycle of about 7,885 years the universe is destroyed and re-created. Those with apocalyptic inclinations will be relieved to observe that the present cycle will not end until Columbus Day, October 12, 4772 in the Gregorian calendar.

This puts the Rapture Index in a precarious situation. Sustaining the present 155 level, dubbed "Fasten Your Seat Belts", for another 2600+ years is, well, low probablity not to mention stressful. Of course, if I put myself in an apocalyptic mindset, the prior high of 182, hit shortly after 9/11/2001, may just be on a lower quantum scale. "Fasten your Seat belts" indeed!

:: css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design
I lost myself in time at the css Zen Garden: The Beauty in CSS Design. My web making skills are very lowly, heck I even use the dreaded and much maligned Frontpage. But I do love CSS, which breaks one free from many of the impositions of traditional HTML. The CSS Zen Garden is an inspiration in simplicity and breadth of imaginative possibilities. The page linked, CSS Zen Dragen by Matthew Buchanan, is but one of 520 designs submitted and archived for students not only of coding but of design. This is a treasure.